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they htid taken home food one of the Middle-g"ttt'ns''~ named Lne'kli, 

 shot one of tlie Cod-people in the arm from between the houses. Upon 

 this his two younger brothers acted as if they were drunk. Thej^ 

 killed there a chief, Gfi'la. He belonged to the Ya'gun-gitina'-i.''^ 

 He did not die at once. He died afterward. His entire family shot 

 at once at the house of the Cod-people. The}^ killed two persons. 



For ten days and nights they fought in the town. No one had a tire. 

 No one had water. When the chiefs' wives, thinking that they would 

 not touch them, w^ent for water the Ya'gun-gitina'-i smashed their 

 buckets with stones, and they returned. At the end of ten days the 

 Ya'gun-gitina'-i suggested making peace. They then stopped shooting 

 at the house. 



By and by an old man, their uncle, came behind the town singing- 

 catastrophe songs. He belonged to the Cod-people. After he had 

 sung for a while he made a good speech: "Chiefs, my brothers in- 

 law, the war trail and the feather trail came out together at Na-i i'n- 

 djawa in the middle of the town. 1 went up b}' the war trail. 1 came 

 out upon the feather trail. 'What town is this? What town is this?' 

 'Chief, my son, this is the town of (xfi'la, your father. You started 

 up on the war trail which comes out in the middle of your father's 

 town. You fathers were troubled''* about you. You came out upon 

 the feather trail.'" He also spake so: '" Is it ni}^ father's town? Is it 

 indeed my father's town? [I thought it was] some other. "^'^ 



They then started to dance. After they had been for two days in 

 the woods, they were called toward the house. They came then and 

 stood in a line in front of the house. They had their guns ready. 

 Presently the Ya'gun-gitina'-i stood in lines opposite. They struck 

 each other with their guns. They struck each other with their knives. 



By and by the Cod-people picked up two chiefs [of the Ya'gun- 

 gitina'-i].'*" There was a great crowd of people. They picked them 

 up and laid them upon a bed of feathers in the rear part of the house. 

 Then two slaves were tendered as blood money to Those- born-at- 

 Ya'gun.^'' And they refused them. They afterward tendered them 

 two more. Those they refused also. 



Then Tcla'nut said: "Do I ask four slaves of 3"ou? My uncle is 

 worth ten slaves and four hundred blankets. I will not dance." There 

 were many in the house. They did not pay any attention to the bad 

 words that he gave them.-'^ 



By and by the Middle-giti'ns began rapping on the front of the 

 house. They presently went in and got the dancers. They took them 

 up. The}^ then brought them into the house of the Middle-giti'ns 

 because they had started the trouble.'*'' 'i'hey brought these in [to give 

 to them property]. They (the Middle-giti'ns) gave them the four 

 slaves. They also g-ave them a great quantitv of propert^^ They (the 

 Ya'gun-gitina'-i) began to dance in the house at once. 



